Mississippi’s 50 Leading Business Women
of 2009 honored

Becky Montgomery, of Mississippi Power Company
and chair of the Public Education Forum of
Mississippi and former Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck of
Mississippi State, are among the Mississippi 50
 Leading Business Women of 2009.

Mississippi’s 50 Leading Business Women of 2009 were honored Aug. 13 at a workshop and luncheon at the Eagle Ridge Conference Center in Raymond.

The event and program for Mississippi’s 50 Leading Business Women is held annually by the Mississippi Business Journal. The Mississippi Economic Council sponsors the event along with MEC members BankPlus and St. Dominic’s. The Mississippi Business Journal is also an MEC member.

 In addition to the workshop and awards luncheon, a special reception at the Governor’s Mansion and a dinner at the Fairview Inn were held for the honorees on Aug. 12.

 The 2009 50 Leading Business Women are:

(MEC members are noted in bold)

Paula K. April – Mississippi Coast Coliseum & Convention Center

Paula Graves Ardelean – Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC

Crisler Moffat Boone – Jackson Preparatory School

Teresa Boutwell – American Healthtech Inc.

Sheri Pierce Bryan – Crye-Leike Realtors

Sanda Massey Buckley – Mississippi Technology Alliance/CIT

Lindsay Buford – Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership

Lesley L. Carter – Business Communications, Inc.

Cindi Clark – Super Limo Inc. & Legal Temps Inc.

Jenifer D’Aquilla – Roy Anderson Construction Corporation

Anne Michelle Daniel – Community Place

Beth Farris – Eagle Ridge Conference and Training Center

Rita Dennis Floyd – Trustmark National Bank

Julie Jarrell Gresham – Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes PLLC

C. Joyce Hall – Watkins & Eager, PLLC

Margo Hemphill – Oneway Promotional Products, Inc.

Tricia Herlihy – Watkins, Ludlam, Winter & Steenis, P.A.

Janet Herman – Mississippi Blood Services

Josie Mayfield Hudson – Attorney

Charmain Kanosky – Mississippi State Medical Assocation

Judy Jones Lindsay – Beyond Therapy Pediatric Group

Joanna Fulton Lousteau – Canton Family Clinic

Manisha Sethi Malhotra – Internal Medicine & Pediatric Associates of Ridgeland, PLLC

Dorothy Roberts McEwen – South Mississippi Regional Center

Melissa Medley – Mississippi Development Authority

Becky Huston Montgomery – Mississippi Power Company

Carol Moore – U.S. Department of Commerce

Debbie C. Norris – Mississippi College

Anna Oberhousen – Willstaff Worldwide Staffing

Lisa Palazzo – Palazzo & Co. PLLC

Lauren H. Parry – The Overby Company

Gee Gee Patridge – BankPlus

Shirley Reed – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Jennifer Riley – SA Technologies

Kathy Scarbrough – Navigator Credit Union

Tina Ross-Seamons – Biloxi Bay Chamber of Commerce

Martha Segars – First American National Bank

Tricia Stevens-Smith – Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz

Deborah Steverson – Magnolia Garden Assisted Living

Janet Sullivan – Mississippi Department of Transportation

Anne Sullivan – Magnolia Speech School

Melanie Sylvester – Grayson Blu

Ann Coleman Thames – Mississippi Department of Mental Health

Tawana Thompson – Viking Range Corporation

Amy Tuck – Mississippi State University

Lee Ann Turner – Perry, Winfield & Wolfe, P.A.

Fran Weeks – Turkoyz

Nancy Carolyn Williams – Bladder Health Network

Christy Ellison Willis – Coldwell Banker Graham & Associates

Rene Woodward – Jackson Municipal Airport Authority